Henry sent someone to contact DEC, but it might take some time to get down. It was the proposal to acquire Hughes Aerospace and Communications from General Motors, and it soon became apparent.

General Motors specializes in selling cars, and he owns Hughes Aerospace and Communications mostly for investment. Of course, some technology is also required. If someone bids right, they naturally don’t mind selling the company. After five rounds of negotiations between SpaceX and General Motors, they finally acquired the Hughes Aerospace and Communications Company for US$6 billion, including the Hughes Laboratory!

SpaceX could have acquired Hughes Aerospace and Communications for $5 billion and jointly own Hughes Labs with General Motors. But in order to fully control the Hughes Lab, SpaceX added an additional $1 billion!

Just as the "Weasel Studio" is the core asset of Lockheed, the Hughes Laboratory is also the core asset of Hughes, and countless advanced technologies were born here. The most outstanding and most talented people in the entire company are all gathered in the Hughes Lab.

For high-tech companies, talent and technology are the company's vitality!

Henry attaches great importance to the Hughes Laboratory. In addition to its advanced aerospace technology, the Hughes Laboratory is also the earliest research and most powerful institution in the laser field!

Think about it. A laser weapon is installed on the satellite. If anyone is unhappy, give it to him. At this speed of light, who can stop it?

Build a thousand or eight hundred satellites, each with ten laser weapons, the whole world will have to fear!

The intercontinental missile wanted to hit it, but was destroyed by a laser weapon halfway through.

The most effective way to deal with a party with a laser weapon is to use the other's way to give back to the other side. Yes, it is to use the laser to fight the laser!

Henry developed laser technology just in case, and may be used in the future, and in his lifetime, he may open the era of interstellar navigation with more weapons. One more security guarantee.

In "** Day", the White House was used by aliens with laser weapons, and it disappeared all at once...

That power is really terrifying!

right now. There are four institutions or companies with the highest technological content in Henry: WilliamsX Laboratory, Weasel Studio, SpaceX, and Hughes Laboratory.

Unconsciously, Henry became obsessed with acquiring high-tech laboratories or studios, the world's first-class laboratories or studios. Will have the strongest technology.

Henry looked into the distance. There is a Bell Labs in the faraway state of New Jersey...

Bell Labs is the invention of many major inventions such as transistors, lasers, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, digital switches, communication satellites, electronic digital computers, cellular mobile communication equipment, long-distance television transmission, simulation languages, sound movies, stereo recordings, and communication networks. Birthplace, obtained more than 25,000 patents.

Originally Bell Labs was jointly owned by AT&T and Western Electronics, and it was not easy to acquire it. But soon, that is, in 1996, on the basis of AT&T and Western Electronics, a new company-Lucent will be established, and Bell Labs belongs to Lucent. As long as Lucent is acquired, it is equivalent to owning Bell Labs!

...

At 5:46 a.m. on January 17, 1995. A magnitude 7.2 direct earthquake occurred in Kobe, Japan!

The news of the earthquake quickly spread all over the world. Henry heard the news immediately. This was the famous Hanshin Earthquake in Japan, which killed more than 5,400 people, injured more than 34,000, and collapsed more than 190,000 houses. And damage, the direct economic loss amounts to 100 billion U.S. dollars! In Kobe City, due to gas leakage and dense wooden houses, it caused rapid chain fires. For example, in the Nagata district of Kobe, all wooden houses were destroyed. It was the biggest disaster in Japan after World War II!

Because of this incident, it even led to the bankruptcy of the British Bank of Barings! The Nikkei Index plummeted due to the earthquake, but the Bank of Bahrain bought a lot and lost billions of dollars!

Henry has seen some photos of the Hanshin Earthquake. It's terrible!

A week later, Japan announced the casualty data and various losses in the earthquake, which immediately shocked the world!

Many countries, companies, institutions, or individuals have donated money. Henry expressed his most sincere condolences to the victims in Japan in his heart, but the donation is exempted, and he is the world's richest man. If you donate less, others have to say; if you donate too much, it will be cheaper by the Japanese government. It is not easy to make money, and the money is not brought by the wind. How can you say donate just donate! Moreover, isn't the Japanese government rich, and needs other people to donate money? However, Henry did not donate at all. Henry made his Japanese company interesting and donated some money. After all, the company has grown, and it is a Japanese company. If you don't donate any money, after the earthquake, others can't gossip and spit?

If the reputation is too bad, the Japanese company will not be confused...

Japan's economy has just recovered after the real estate crash in 1990. However, the Great Hanshin Earthquake dealt a heavy blow to Japan, causing the Japanese economy to regress for several years! By the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Japan was about to suffer another severe blow!

Henry thought for a while, and felt that Japan was a bit scary, and the successive blows could not stop its development speed. The economic and technological strengths were also developing very strong!

Henry murmured: "It seems that during the Asian financial crisis in 1997, Japan had to be ruthless..."

In this disaster, more than 200 companies in Japan closed down. Most of these companies are retail stores, supermarkets, or production factories, but they have little impact on technology companies and the scope of their attacks is not wide enough. Henry reached out to buy these companies, it didn't make much sense.

As time passed, the Hanshin Earthquake gradually faded out of sight.

On January 26, 1995 ~lightnovelpub.net~ Kailena invited Henry to go to China to spend the Chinese New Year with her parents. In fact, it was to meet the parents.

Henry thought about it and agreed. He and Kailena have long established a relationship, but for many years, Henry has never met Kailena's parents. For one thing, Henry was timid about seeing his parents; secondly, Kailena's parents moved to Beijing to live and it was not easy to meet each other. This time, although Kalena invited herself, it was mostly her parents who forced her to call herself over to meet. That being the case, it's no big deal to meet each other. Henry thought to himself, he hasn't returned to China for a long time, this time he will go to Beijing, and then go to his hometown in his previous life...

Henry has never dared to send someone to investigate whether there is another self in his hometown in his previous life. He is afraid of the changes caused by the butterfly effect! He would rather not know than hear the news that disappointed him. He is now alone, without parents, no relatives, and even with hundreds of billions of dollars, he still often feels very lonely at night. Sometimes he would stare at the starry sky in a daze, tears streaming down; sometimes he would be extremely eager to fly to China to see the land with his own eyes, to find his relatives in his previous life!

At this moment, Henry felt that he could no longer escape!

(To be continued.)